Description:
Variation in viewpoints poses significant challenges to action recognition. One popular way of encoding view-invariant action representation is based on the exploitation of epipolar geometry between different views of the same action. Majority of representative work considers detection of landmark points and their tracking by assuming that motion trajectories for all landmark points on human body are available throughout the course of an action. Unfortunately, due to occlusion and noise, detection and tracking of these landmarks is not always robust. To facilitate it, some of the work assumes that such trajectories are manually marked which is a clear drawback and lacks automation introduced by computer vision. In this paper, we address this problem by proposing view invariant action matching score based on epipolar geometry between actor silhouettes, without tracking and explicit point correspondences. In addition, we explore multi-body epipolar constraint which facilitates to work on original action volumes without any pre-processing. We show that multi-body fundamental matrix captures the geometry of dynamic action scenes and helps devising an action matching score across different views without any prior segmentation of actors. Extensive experimentation on challenging view invariant action datasets shows that our approach not only removes long standing assumptions but also achieves significant improvement in recognition accuracy and retrieval.

Description:
Natural image matting is a task to estimate fractional opacity of foreground layer from an image. Many matting methods have been proposed, and most of them are trimap-based. Among these methods, closed-form matting offers both trimap-based and scribble-based matting. However, the closed-form method causes significant errors at background-hole regions due to over-smoothing. In this paper, we identify the source of the problem and propose our solution to enhance the closed-form method. Experiments show that our enhanced method can improve the accuracy for trimap-based images and obtain similar result to the closed-form method for scribble-based matting.